ITEM 1: R&R in AUSTRALIA for ISRAELI DEFENCE FORCE PERSONNEL
I am shocked that the Albanese Government has allowed (serving) Israeli Defence Force personnel to “recharge” by taking R&R (Rest and Recreation) in Australia. Given the credible reports of the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, it is quite possible that some of them may have been involved in war crimes, much as American servicemen, who were given R&R in Thailand during the Vietnam War, later turned out to have been.
This contrasts sadly with the Prime Minister’s decision not to allow the ISIS‑tainted 11 Australian women and 23 children to return to Australia. Note: Australians.
The immediate impulse is to condemn this highly discriminatory stance by Albanese, Wong & Co. as rabid racism. Yet there is room here to pause and reflect on that instant judgement.
The sheer frequency with which the word “racism” is used has been devaluing its accusatory force for years. My whinge is that it is too readily invoked to condemn all and everything, even when not intended. For those familiar with Australian slang, this will ring true: what might be construed as racism is often in fact a reflection of a wry or sarcastic sense of humour, however poor.
That said, there is no doubt that a strong undercurrent of racism runs through the Australian psyche. I know that firsthand, having traversed White Australianisms from the 1960s onwards.
As I recall, Australian writer Humphrey McQueen was the first to pinpoint this aspect of the Australian mind in the 1970s. He argued that racism was deeply embedded in, indeed was the linchpin of, Australian nationalism. This reflected his analysis of how racial exclusion shaped Australia’s cultural and political identity from its colonial origins (A New Britannia).
I can confidently say that from the 1970s onwards, day‑to‑day racism in Australia declined conspicuously once Multiculturalism (and political correctness) began to take hold. Australia was marching on, sanguinely and with purpose, toward becoming a model multicultural Western society.
Then 9/11 put paid to that, reigniting the racist underbelly of the white mindset. It has since been burning increasingly intensely, for reasons ranging from the endless West Asian wars to the indigestible clashing of ways of life in the present ethnic mix, to the self‑perceived loss of power by rednecks and MAGA‑style types. And stoked by the likes of Pauline Hanson.
Even so, I reject the view that racism alone explains why Israeli soldiers have been granted R&R in Australia without vetting their possible involvement in the Gaza genocide. I believe that the more damning explanation is this: the tentacles of the Zionist lobby are now firmly embedded in the Australian polity. This is also the case in other Western societies, but it is more pronounced here, because the power of a single ethnic group is more evident in a smaller population.
Hence, the disproportionate power on display of the Zionist lobby, as this episode shows. Even more telling is that while people of the Jewish faith constitute only 0.5% of the population, they have the clout to force the Government to set up a Royal Commission into Antisemitism. In effect, Zionists have more say on Discrimination than First Nations people, 3.9% of the population, whose quest for a Voice was defeated in 2024. The Zionist lobby played a significant role, financially, in encouraging the No vote.
If the Zionist Voice supersedes that of the First Nations people, what hope do Australian women and children, condemned to exile because of bad choices made in their marital stakes, have in an environment in which the Zionist lobby is actively encouraging Islamophobia?
No, racism is too convenient an explanation for the Albanese Government’s decision. The answer lies in the financial claws of the supremacist (Chosen People) Zionists in Australia, digging into the arteries of the major Australian political parties.
The Zionist racism toxically fused with the organic streak of Anglo-Celtic bigotry makes for a virulent mix, which is now a serious threat to social cohesion in Australia.
